Religion in the Soviet Union

Religion in the Soviet Union PDF Author: F. Corley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230390048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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Book Description
The Soviet government's attitude to religion in theory and practice is shown in this wide-ranging collection of annotated texts from the newly-opened archives. Included are documents from the KGB, the Central Committee, the Council for Religious Affairs and numerous other official bodies. For the first time in English we see the bureaucrats' own view of how religious believers should be controlled, following the story from the persecutions of the early Soviet years to the openness instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev.